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07-11-19, 01:41 PM
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07-11-19, 01:44 PM
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Silicon, aka glass, is too heavy for the strength it provides. Carbon is a bargain.
07-11-19, 01:53 PM
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It is the plastic which is molded and cured, not the carbon fiber. That just goes along for the ride. Pun!
07-11-19, 01:56 PM
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07-11-19, 02:02 PM
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07-11-19, 02:03 PM
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07-11-19, 02:20 PM
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I’m allowing myself to buy one “thing” soon. One option is a frame on a deep discount ($2k+), the other option is a complete Di2 bike from Ribble ($1.8k). The frame will get built slowly in winter/spring if I go with the frame.
Mind you, I don’t need either at this point, and no matter which one I’ll get, I’ll still be a slow Clyde, but the gods of excess demands a sacrifice at this point in time.
Thoughts?
Mind you, I don’t need either at this point, and no matter which one I’ll get, I’ll still be a slow Clyde, but the gods of excess demands a sacrifice at this point in time.
Thoughts?
07-11-19, 02:27 PM
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It is commonly made from another plastic fiber, polyacrylonitrile, also known as Orlon. The hydrogen and nitrogen are baked out of it to leave just the carbon fibers.
07-11-19, 02:28 PM
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Look at www.workswellbikes.com. For under $500 you can get a very fine carbon frame.
07-11-19, 02:29 PM
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07-11-19, 02:29 PM
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07-11-19, 02:36 PM
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It's 10 min. but I was in there from 7:15 until almost 3 p.m.
Getting a little sorer now that whatever they shot my leg up with is wearing off.
On a side note, a man in one of the beds next to me was rattling off all the Rx meds he is on to a nurse. Se had a list and was asking him when the last time he took each one. There had to be at least a dozen, including two types of insulin. He couldn't even remember what some of them were for.
Getting a little sorer now that whatever they shot my leg up with is wearing off.
On a side note, a man in one of the beds next to me was rattling off all the Rx meds he is on to a nurse. Se had a list and was asking him when the last time he took each one. There had to be at least a dozen, including two types of insulin. He couldn't even remember what some of them were for.
07-11-19, 02:49 PM
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07-11-19, 04:12 PM
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close. I'm an accountant not a material scientist. I know the basics: carbon fibre strands/cloth are mixed with liquid resins and hardeners and then a magic bike happens. I do know that the more resin you can squeeze out during the moulding/curing process the stronger and lighter the frame will be.
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07-11-19, 04:15 PM
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I'm just envious. I'm not solvent enough to afford a carbon wonder bike. They are super expensive over here. I'll have to settle for my titaniaum, aluminium and steel bikes.
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07-11-19, 04:27 PM
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07-11-19, 04:46 PM
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07-11-19, 04:49 PM
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07-11-19, 04:50 PM
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07-11-19, 04:51 PM
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I've been visiting/calling LBSs and I'm finding that no one carries bladed, straight-pull spokes in stock, not even one LBS that's owned by a wheel builder. Meanwhile, I've looked more closely at the nipple still hanging from the rim... yeah, turns out that I didn't break the spoke - I broke a nipple and, in my frustration last night, I tossed the perfectly good, hard-to-find spoke somewhere along the road.
07-11-19, 04:51 PM
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07-11-19, 04:53 PM
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I've been visiting/calling LBSs and I'm finding that no one carries bladed, straight-pull spokes in stock, not even one LBS that's owned by a wheel builder. Meanwhile, I've looked more closely at the nipple still hanging from the rim... yeah, turns out that I didn't break the spoke - I broke a nipple and, in my frustration last night, I tossed the perfectly good, hard-to-find spoke somewhere along the road.
07-11-19, 05:17 PM
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Greetings from Williams. Got a cozy motel room right downtown.
07-11-19, 05:18 PM
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Headlamp at the ready in case I lose power.
07-11-19, 05:29 PM
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Back from being not banned but still without permission to access the 41. Exactly what happens during a ban. What was I to think?
Also back from the cardiologist. My heart has been proclaimed healthy as a horse. No angina even. I've been instructed to act my age and all will be well. But all is not perfect. I have UTI.
Also back from the cardiologist. My heart has been proclaimed healthy as a horse. No angina even. I've been instructed to act my age and all will be well. But all is not perfect. I have UTI.